Posts Tagged ‘alcohol’
“When should the addicts family get involved”
Many families that have loved ones addicted to Drugs or Alcohol are standing by and waiting for their loved one to hit bottom. They are waiting for their loved one to ask for help, or to say they are willing to get help. The truth is that a drug addict or alcoholic has put himself or herself in a position where they have lost the ability to realize that there is actual help. It has come to the point that the only way of life they know is staying high; they no longer have the cognitive ability to realize they can live a sober productive life. When they do have some clean time, everyday is a struggle and an agonizing battle to stay that way.
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Driving under the Influence
A new survey estimates that as many as three-fourths of American adults think they know enough about how drinking affects their blood alcohol levels, while in fact, most don’t even know the legal limits in their own state.
The Century Council, a group backed by major distillers, is campaigning to better educate the public about those limits and how much you have to drink to exceed them. The group is an interactive program designed to educate users on blood-alcohol concentrations based on their weight and gender and the number and types of drinks they consume. It also factors in elapsed time, how quickly someone is drinking and how much food the individual has eaten.
"Our research indicates about 20 percent of Americans will drink a little more than usual at the holiday time, so as a result I think that it creates an additional incentive for distillers, as responsible companies, to go out and educate those people who may be enjoying the holiday celebrations more than they’re used to," Century Council president Ralph Blackman said.
The council cites federal statistics showing that 1,708 people died in alcohol-related crashes last year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Blackman said people often don’t realize just how fast their blood alcohol concentration goes up, and how long it takes before it returns to normal. The program, the council hopes, will help drinkers face the facts and, very importantly, it hopes to help save lives this holiday season. As Blackman explains, "What we say is, ‘Well, you’ve just gotten the information you need to make a responsible decision and the responsible decision is not drinking up to the legal limit.
The responsible decision is deciding when you’ve drunk enough and you are not impaired and therefore not a danger behind the wheel."
This article sounds like the distillers are trying to help the public know when they have had to much to drink and safely drive their car,but the staggering fact was just swept over in the article. 1708 people died between the 27th of November through the 1st of January that is 35 days 1708 people died because of drinking and driving or in other words 48.8 people died every day through out what should be the holiday season.
If 1708 people died from any one thing in this country just out of the blue something killed 48.8 people a day it would be considered an epidemic or maybe a terrorist attack or something. However the U.S. has become so desensitized to the fact that tens of thousands of people are killed in alcohol related accidents every year that it is no more then a small part of an article written by the people responsible for making the the very thing that killed 48.8 people per day.
If you have a loved one that has a problem with alcohol addiction please call for help. You never know who’s life you may be saving.
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M.A.D.D. stats
In 2006, an estimated 17,602 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes—an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths constitute 41 percent of the 42,642 total traffic fatalities. Of these, an estimated 13,470 involved a driver with an illegal BAC (.08 or greater). On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 39 minutes.
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